Government - Transportation · Iowa

Iowa DOT - Ames Garage

Ames, IA · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa DOT - Ames Garage runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Government - Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

Iowa DOT - Ames Garage: 5.2 TCR = 161% of Government - Transportation BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa DOT - Ames Garage safety composite

Iowa DOT - Ames Garage scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−12.2

2019→2022

Iowa DOT - Ames Garage injury rate improved

Iowa DOT - Ames Garage's TCR fell 12.2 from 12.2 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=12.2 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 926120 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 161% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO Olympic Region WSDOT
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Olympic Region WSDOT (0.1 TCR gap)

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Iowa DOT - Ames Garage in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Iowa DOT - Ames Garage averages 5.2 TCR (161% of the Government - Transportation BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Iowa DOT - Ames Garage TCR series: 2019=12.2 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Iowa DOT - Ames Garage falls in its industry

208 Government - Transportation establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 15 Government - Transportation employers in Iowa.

Iowa DOT - Ames Garage (25 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 3.6 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Iowa DOT - Ames Garage
Iowa DOT - Ames Garage (25 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Iowa DOT - Ames Garage has fewer employees than the Government - Transportation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.4 0.0 1 1 0
2019 12.2 8.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

926120 · IA · Ames

208 Government - Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Olympic Region WSDOT 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southwest Region WSDOT 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR KYTC District 11 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR District 9 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE WCT-Crystal Lake 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oskaloosa Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consumers Energy 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR McKeed Foods Corporation - Stuarts Draft facility 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR McLeod Health Seacoast 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 9215-JAX 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Buckeye Stamping Co dba Buckeye Shapeform 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Zbn King Machine of North Carolina 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal Management Indiana - ECI Facility 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arkema - NKC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stedman Sheet Metal Inc. 25 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.